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04-17-2017, 08:54 PM | #751 | |
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btw, it *just now* occurs to me why you called it "a year", now you get to repeat stuff repeat stuff. aaaanyhow. since you asked, why not pick one or more items from your own list, or what's happened in the intervening year and do a deeper dive on it. Since you don't have to fill the centuries, you can just fill one post with "hey, y'know, back in xyz, when that dude, did that thing... guess what came of it, detail, detail, unexpected consequence, internet meme spawned from, etc." of course, the possibilities are endless. you have obviously put tremendous effort into compiling this stuff, I'm sure some of it snagged your attention, but you were focused on covering "this day in history" ... now you can indulge your focus and just say something about one thing on this day, or two or three. hm?
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04-18-2017, 02:34 PM | #752 |
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The only 'effort' I put into any of this is trying to not destroy the post. There's no effort involved, I'm copy/pasting
I've never posted an IOTD because I hate details. When it's me providing them, anyway. That takes effort. I ain't all that much into effort. I live like I'm broke (<--actually, that takes quite a bit of effort) so that I can go as long as possible without expending any more effort, maybe ever again, if I'm lucky and die young(ish). And I don't know what you mean when you say "pick one or more items from your own list". I don't have a lot of focus, and am easily bored.
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04-18-2017, 02:41 PM | #753 | |
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I am going to try to be a little more modern, and a little less deathy in my choice of events to relate.
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I thought folks would post things that weren't covered in histories, like "On this day in 1974 President Lipschitz stumbled down the stairs of Air Force One. I know the date because I graduated high school that day.", or stuff like that.
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04-18-2017, 03:32 PM | #754 |
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Today is April 18, Tax Day in the United States, so, if you haven't filed yet, you better be getting your shit together.
An International Day For Monuments and Sites is commemorated today. Events 1775 American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements. "One if by land, two if by sea;" 1912 The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City. 1923 "The House that Ruth Built" opens. 1943 In Operation Vengeance, in WWII, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island. 1949 The keel for the aircraft carrier USS United States is laid down at Newport News, Virginia. However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals. 1975 - Four Bay City Rollers fans were taken to hospital and 35 others required on site treatment after they attempted to swim across a lake to meet their heroes. The group were making an appearance at a BBC Radio 1 fun day at Mallory Park. This happened on a Friday, the day before S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night. 1983 A suicide bomber in Lebanon destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. 1988 The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II. It was in retaliation of damage to the guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts, which struck an Iranian mine in the Persian Gulf. By the end of the operation, U.S. air and surface units had sunk, or severely damaged, half of Iran's operational fleet. 1857 Clarence Darrow (lawyer, defended Leopold & Loeb, defended John Scopes in The Scopes Monkey Trial, 1882 Leopold Stokowski♪ ♫(conductor), 1918 Clifton Hillegass (created CliffsNotes), 1922 Barbara Hale ('Della Street' on Perry Mason), 1924 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown♪ ♫, 1946 Hayley Mills, 1946 Tommy Shannon(Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble), 1947 James Woods ("Ooh, a piece o' candy."), 1949 Geoff Bodine, 1953 Rick Moranis, 1956 Eric Roberts, 1961 Jane Leeves ('Daphne' on Frasier, Hot In Cleveland), 1962 Jeff Dunham ("...on a steek."), 1963 Eric McCormack (Will & Grace), 1963 Conan O'Brien (big, tall ginger), 1967 Maria Bello, 1971 David Tennant, 1976 Melissa Joan Hart 1945 Ernie Pyle (war correspondent, killed on Okinawa), 1955 Albert Einstein (brainiac), 1986 Marcel Dassault (founded Dassault Aviation), 1996 Bernard Edwards(Chic), 2002 Thor Heyerdahl (sailed the Kon-Tiki 5,000 miles from South America to the Tuamotu Islands), 2012 Dick Clark (Perhaps you've heard of him?), 2013 Cordell Mosson(Parliament-Funkadelic)
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04-18-2017, 06:06 PM | #755 | |
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04-18-2017, 09:32 PM | #756 |
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While driving, I heard on the radio that today is International Amateur Radio Day and Lola Bunny came to mind. I hope she had a good one.
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04-19-2017, 02:48 PM | #757 |
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Today is April 19, the 109th day of 2017.
Tripsters will be celebrating Bicycle Day today, commemorating the day that Albert Hofman intentionally ingested 0.25 milligrams of lysergic acid diethylamide, and had to be escorted home by his lab assistant. Since the use of cars was prohibited by wartime restrictions, they rode bicycles. Today is also Dutch-American Friendship Day, as well as Primrose Day in the U.K., commemorating the anniversary of the death of Benjamin Disraeli. Events 1892 Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts. 1927 Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex. 1971 Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the TateLaBianca murders.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate%E...Bianca_murders. 1980 - 32 year old English singer Brian Johnson joined Australian group AC/DC, replacing Bon Scott who had died after a drinks binge in February 1980. 1985 Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later. 1987 The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night. 1989 A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors. 1993 The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die. 1995 Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168. 1997 The 1997 Red River flood overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings. 2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI. 2013 Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown. 1787 Deaf Smith, 1877 Ole Evinrude, 1903 Eliot Ness, 1930 Dick Sargent, 1933 Jayne Mansfield, 1935 Dudley Moore, 1942 Jack Roush (founded Roush Fenway Racing), 1946 Tim Curry, 1954 Bob Rock♪ ♫(producer), 1957 Tony Martin♪ ♫, 1962 Al Unser Jr., 1965 Suge Knight♪ ♫, 1968 Ashley Judd, 1978 James Franco, 1979 Kate Hudson 1881 Benjamin Disraeli, 1906 Pierre Curie, 1955 Jim Corbett, 1993 David Koresh, 2004 Norris McWhirter, 2005 Ruth Hussey, 2006 Albert Scott Crossfield, 2012 Levon Helm, 2013 Allan Arbus, 2013 Al Neuharth (founded USA Today), 2017 Aaron Hernandez
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Today is April 20.
Yes, today is 4/20, ergo: Gonna sit down in the kitchen And fix me something good to eat And make my head a little high And make my whole day complete 'Cause we gonna lay around the shanty, mama And put a good buzz on Well pass it to me baby Pass it to me slow Take time out to smile a little Before we let it go 'Cause we gonna lay around the shanty, mama And put a good buzz on Well there ain't nothin' to do And there's always room for more Fill it, light it, shut up And close the door 'Cause we gonna lay around the shanty, mama And put a good buzz on We gonna sit around the kitchen Fix us somethin' good to eat And make ourselves a little high And make our whole day complete 'Cause we gonna lay around the shanty, mama And put a good buzz on 'Cause we gonna lay around the shanty, mama And put a good buzz on And I just might have gotten a head start on ya. 1818 In England, the case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld. 1865 Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion. This is a (modified) Secchi Disk: 1918 Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day. No, Snoopy did not shoot down the Red Baron. 1961 Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba. 1999 Columbine High School massacre: 13 people are killed, and 24 others are injured at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado. 2010 The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months. 1889 Adolf Hitler, 1893 Harold Lloyd, 1904 Bruce Cabot, 1908 Lionel Hampton, 1923 Mother Angelica, 1923 Tito Puente, 1924 Nina Foch, 1925 Elena Verdugo, 1937 George Takei ("Oh, my!"), 1940 James Gammon, 1941 Ryan O'Neal, 1949 Veronica Cartwright, 1949 Jessica Lange, 1951 Luther Vandross♪ ♫, 1962 Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, 1964 Andy Serkis ('Smeagol/Gollum' in TLOTR, Planet of the Apes movie series, Star Wars:TFA, Star Wars:The Last Jedi, 'Baloo' in Jungle Book (2018)), 1967 Mike Portnoy(Dream Theater), 1970 Shemar Moore, 1972 Carmen Electra, 1976 Joey Lawrence 1769 Chief Pontiac, 1912 Bram Stoker, 1982 Archibald MacLeish, 1991 Steve Marriott♪ ♫(Small Faces, Humble Pie), 1991 Don Siege (director, Dirty Harry, Escape From Alcatraz, The Shootist, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), 1992 Benny Hill, 1996 Christopher Robin Milne (basis for 'Christopher Robin' in Winnie The Pooh), 1999 Rick Rude, 2014 Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter(subject of the Bob Dylan song "Hurricane", and the Denzel Washington movie The Hurricane), 2016 Chyna (wrestler), 2016 Victoria Wood
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04-20-2017, 04:21 PM | #761 |
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Heh, that wasn't me. That's straight Wikipedia there.
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I know Pius IX supported the dogma of immaculate conception, but Immaculata Concezion is a modern fishing boat still in business.
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Today is April 21.
753 BC Romulus founds Rome (traditional date). 1918 World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France. Again, not by Snoopy. 1934 The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax). 1989 Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang. 1816 Charlotte Brontλ, 1838 John Muir, 1887 Joe McCarthy, 1915 Anthony Quinn, 1922 Alistair MacLean, 1924 Ira Louvin, 1926 Queen Elizabeth II, 1935 Charles Grodin, 1939 Reni Santoni ('Poppy' on Seinfeld), 1947 Iggy Pop♪ ♫, 1949 Patti LuPone, 1951 Tony Danza, 1958 Andie MacDowell, 1959 Robert Smith, 1979 James McAvoy 1910 Mark Twain, 1918 Manfred von Richthofen "The Red Baron", 1948 Aldo Leopold, 1971 Franηois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, 1996 Zora Arkus-Duntov 'Father of the Corvette), 1996 Jimmy 'The Greek' Snyder, 2003 Nina Simone♪ ♫, 2015 Steve Byrnes (sportscaster, racing reporter), 2016 Lonnie Mack, 2016 Prince
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Snoopy never gets the credit he deserves.
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